Syrup of Liquorice.
Take sweet Tincture, Hony each one pint; Oil of Aniseed 8 drops: Make a Syrup.
It incrassates, mollifies, maturates, obtunds Acrimony, helps for a Catarrh Cough. But when the Lungs are filled with thick matter, and so suffer a difficulty of Breathing, then attenuating, and inciding Medicines (such as Syrup of Elecampane) are more of use.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710